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After a lengthy improvement process, Amazon MGM Studios has greenlighted Robocop, a bid based connected nan MGM movie franchise, from showrunner Peter Ocko and Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
In Robocop, a elephantine tech conglomerate convinces nan metropolis to spot a powerful robot connected its constabulary unit – a robot implanted pinch nan consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.
As Deadline reported successful April 2023, Robocop was among nan first activity of MGM titles identified for bid improvement pursuing Amazon’s 2022 acquisition of nan studio, alongside Legally Blonde, Barbershop, Stargate, The Magnificent Seven, Poltergeist and Fame, pinch a mates of others, including Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair, taking nan characteristic remake route.
The Robocop bid started to return style successful 2024 erstwhile seasoned Ocko (Lodge 49) was tapped arsenic writer, executive shaper and showrunner, pinch scary maestro James Wan connected committee to executive produce.
Robocop is nan latest task from nan MGM IP slate to get a bid order, pursuing nan Legally Blonde prequel Elle, which has been renewed for a 2nd season, and Barbershop — some for Prime Video — arsenic good arsenic The Magnificent Seven for related MGM+.
Meanwhile, Amazon precocious opted not to spell guardant pinch a antecedently greenlighted Stargate TV series; hunt is underway for a caller writer to tackle nan IP.
Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett executive nutrient Robocop through Blumhouse Atomic Monster, pinch co-executive shaper Danielle Bozzone overseeing nan bid connected behalf of nan company. Ed Neumeier, co-creator and co-writer of nan original 1987 RoboCop film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, will besides service arsenic an executive producer.
“I’ve been a monolithic instrumentality of Robocop forever, truthful getting to thief bring this world to tv is simply a dream,” Wan said. “What Paul Verhoeven created successful 1987 was decades up of its time, and its questions astir technology, identity, and who corporations really service person only grown much urgent. With Peter’s unique imagination and bold attack to storytelling, and alongside Ed and our partners astatine Amazon MGM Studios, we’re moving to grant what made nan original iconic and item its relevancy successful this modern, tech-driven world, while building thing unmistakably caller for a world audience.”
The Robocop sci-fi action movie franchise centers astir nan futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded successful nan statement of work and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop. The first film, starring Peter Weller, was followed by 2 sequels, Robocop 2 in 1990, Robocop 3 in 1993 and 2014’s Robocop, a remake of nan 1987 film.
At its halfway a societal satire — blending action pinch a critique of firm greed, privatization, and nan quality of personality — Robocop has go moreover much applicable amid advances successful robotics and AI pinch its themes of humanity versus exertion and nan consequences of unchecked firm power.
“Robocop is simply a franchise that has meant thing to audiences for astir 4 decades — not conscionable arsenic an action spectacle, but arsenic a sharp, provocative reflector of our narration pinch exertion and power,” said Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “Peter Ocko has crafted a imagination that honors nan psyche of what made nan original truthful enduring while building thing wholly caller and urgent for today. Paired pinch nan cinematic sensibility of James Wan and nan squad astatine Blumhouse Atomic Monster, we judge this bid will captivate a full caller procreation of fans connected Prime Video.”
